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It’s first week of 2016, i thought it’d be a good idea to list most popular WordPress

plugins of 2015 and all these plugins are Most popular WordPress plugins 2016. Every

years developers release so many new WordPress plugins which allows you to add

different type of features to your WordPress websites.

It’s not easy to decide which plugin is best, because different plugins offers different

features. It depends on your needs, you can decide which plugins suites your need best.

Everyone has their own list of favorite WordPress plugins. There are so many popular

plugins but not every WordPress users is using them.

List Of Most Popular WordPress Plugins 2015 And MostPopular WordPress Plugins 2016?

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Popular WordPress Plugins 2016?

In this article i am going to list 30 most popular WordPress plugins 2015. So lets see

what are the most popular WordPress plugins 2015.

Note : This article was written in second week of January 2016. Total number of

downloads and active install can be different when you read this article. hello Dolly is

one of the most popular WordPress plugins but i am not going to add hello dolly in this

list, because it comes pre installed with WordPress.

1. Contact Form 7

ContactForm7 most popular WordPress plugin

Contact Form 7 is most popular WordPress plugin with more than 1+ million active

installs and 33,534,041 all time downloads. This is most popular and widely used

WordPress contact form plugin. This powerful plugin allows you to manage multiple

contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with

simple markup.

This plugin was last updated 1 month ago and is Compatible up to WordPress version

4.4. Latest version 4.3.1 requires WordPress 4.2 or higher.

Active installs : 1+ million

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All time downloads (as of January 2016) : 33,534,041

2. All In One SEO Pack

All in One SEO Pack most popular WordPress plugin

WordPress SEO is very important and every serious blogger and WordPress use some

kind of WordPress SEO plugins to improve their search engine rankings. With 1+ million

active Installs and 25,486,474 all time downloads All in One SEO Pack is most popular

WordPress SEO plugin and second most popular WordPress plugin in all categories.

This plugin is created by Michael Torbert and Steve Mortiboy. All in One SEO Pack

version 2.2.7.5 requires WordPress 3.3 or higher and is compatible up to WordPress 4.4.

This plugin is up to date and was last updated 3 weeks ago. A pro version is also

available.



3. Akismet

Akismet is 3rd most popular WordPress plugin with 1+ million active install and

42,500,798 all time downloads. Spam is a big headache for bloggers and this free and

very powerful WordPress plugins helps you to Automatically check all comments and

filters out the ones that look like spam.

Akismet is updated recently and Compatible up to WordPress version 4.4.1. Akismet

version 3.1.7 requires WordPress 3.2 or higher. Akismet is most popular WordPress

Antispam plugin.



4. Advanced Custom Fields

Advanced Custom Fields Most Popular WordPress plugins

Advanced Custom Fields is fourth most popular WordPress plugin with 1+ million active

installs and 4,408,113 all time downloads. Advanced Custom Fields is very powerful

WordPress plugin to create different type of additional custom fields and forms. This

plugin is not for beginner WordPress users. Advanced Custom Fields is created by Elliot

Condon a Melbourne based web developer.

Advanced Custom Fields version 4.4.4 Requires WordPress version 3.5.0 or higher and is

compatible up to WordPress version 4.4. This plugins was last updated 4 weeks ago.



5. Really Simple CAPTCHA

Really Simple CAPTCHA is fifth most popular WordPress plugin of 2015 with 1+ million

active installs and 3,839,077 all time downloads. This is second most popular WordPress

plugin by Takayuki Miyoshi, who is the developer of most popular WordPress plugin

Contact Form 7.

Really Simple CAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA module intended to be called from other

WordPress plugins. It was originally created for Contact Form 7 plugin.

Really Simple CAPTCHA is not up to date, it was updated almost a year ago. It requires

WordPress version 3.9 or higher and is compatible up to WordPress 4.1.8. But normally

most WordPress plugins works well with latest version of WordPress.

most WordPress plugins works well with latest version of WordPress.


All time downloads (as of January 2016) 3,839,077

6. WooCommerce – Excelling ECommerce

WooCommerce is a most popular free WordPress eCommerce plugin that allows you to

sell anything on your websites or blog. Built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress,

WooCommerce is the world’s favorite eCommerce solution that gives both store

owners and developers complete control.

You can start selling anything quickly and easily with WooCommerce without spending

hundred or thousands of dollars. According to plugin description page WooCommerce

now powers 30% of all online stores — more than any other platform. For advance

features hundreds of free and premium extensions are also available for WooComerce.

WooCommerce requires WordPress 4.1 or higher and is Compatible up to WordPress

4.4. With 1+ million active install and 11,707,822 all time downloads this is another most

popular WordPress plugin.



7. Jetpack By WordPress.Com

I think JetPack is most powerful and popular WordPress plugin with 30 plus modules, it

turn your WordPress blog into powerful websites. You don’t need to install dozens of

other plugins to add different features to your website. Jetpack’s stats modules lets you

see how many people visit your website, which blog post is most popular post, what

people are searching for and a lot more.

You can let people subscribe to your blog very easily with subscribers widget. Related

post module lets you display other related posts from your blog at the bottom of your

blog post. Jetpack also protects your website against brute force attacks and

unauthorised logins. It also monitor your website for downtime and keep your plugins

updated.

This is a free plugin created by Automatic the company behind WordPress itself.

JetPack version 3.8.2 requires WordPress version 4.2 of higher and is Compatible up to

WordPress 4.4.



8. Wordfence Security

WordPress is most popular CMS to build websites, that’s why it is heavily targeted by

bad guys. You can not ignore security of your WordPress based website. The Wordfence

is most popular WordPress security plugin that provides free enterprise-class

WordPress security, protecting your website from hacks and malware.

Wordfence checks if your site is already infected. Wordfence security plugin do a deep

server-side scan of your source code and compares it to the Official WordPress

repository for core, themes and plugins. Then Wordfence secures your site and claims

to make it up to 50 times faster. A premium version is also available.

Wordfence version 6.0.22 requires WordPress 3.9 or higher and compatible up to 4.4.

Wordfence is up to date plugin.



9. WP Super Cache

Slow websites really sucks and people hate slow website, studies show that if a website

take too much time to load people will leave it immediately. Website speed really

matters and Google also love fast websites. WP Super Cache is most popular WordPress

caching plugin that produces static HTML files to make your website load faster.

WP Super Cache plugin generates static HTML files from your dynamic WordPress blog.

After a HTML file is generated your web server will serve that file to Users who are not

logged in or Users who have not left a comment on your blog, instead of processing the

comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

WP Super Cache requires WordPress 3.0 or higher and is compatible up to 4.4.



10. Google XML Sitemaps

XML sitemaps are very important for search engines. Sitemaps helps search engines to

index your website better which improves your search engine ranking. Google XML

Sitemaps is most popular WordPress plugin to generate a special XML sitemap which

will help search engines to better index your blog.

If you don’t know why XML sitemaps are important and why you should create

sitemaps, let me tell you that with sitemaps, it is much easier for the crawlers (in simple

sitemaps, let me tell you that with sitemaps, it is much easier for the crawlers (in simple

words search engines like Google, Bing etc) to see the complete structure of your

website and retrieve it more efficiently.

Google XML Sitemaps will notify all major search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo etc)

every time you will publish a post on your blog. You can also donate via paypal to

support developer of this very useful and popular free plugin.



11. Regenerate Thumbnails

Post Thumbnails is a WordPress themes feature introduced with WordPress Version 2.9.

Later It was changed to Featured Images with Version WordPress version 3.0. Post

Thumbnail, now Featured Image, is an image that is chosen as the representative image

for Posts, Pages or Custom Post Types. The display of this image is up to the theme you

are using. This is especially useful for “Magazine style” themes where each post has an

image.

Regenerate Thumbnails is one of the most popular WordPress plugins that allows you

to regenerate the thumbnails for your image attachments. This plugin is very handy if

you have changed any of your thumbnail dimensions (via Settings -> Media) after

previously uploading images or have changed to a theme with different featured post

image dimensions.

The best thing of this plugin is that you can either regenerate the thumbnails for all

image uploads, individual image uploads, or specific multiple image uploads.

Regenerate Thumbnails requires WordPress version 2.8 or higher and is Compatible up

to WordPress version 4.4.

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12. Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO is no doubt very powerful and most popular WordPress SEO plugin. This

plugin allows users to easily optimize their website for search engines. This free plugin

not only allows you write better content also lets you fully optimized WordPress site.

After writing each blog post Yoast SEO helps you make your blog post better by giving

suggestion.

The Yoast SEO plugins Page Analysis functionality checks simple things you are bound

to forget. It checks, for instance, if you have images in your post and whether they have

an alt tag containing the focus keyword for that post. Yoast SEO plugin will also check

whether your posts are long enough, if you have written a meta description and if that

meta description contains your focus keyword, if you’ve used any subheadings within

your post, etc. etc.

You can read about this plugin at WordPress SEO plugin page. Yoast SEO requires

WordPress 4.0 or higher and Compatible up to WordPress 4.4. With 1+ million Active

Installs this one is second most popular WordPress SEO plugin. A premium version is

also available.



13. WP-PageNavi

According to Joost De Valk developer of Yoast SEO plugin

You’ll want to make sure that if a bot goes to a category page, it can reach allunderlying pages without any trouble. Otherwise, if you have a lot of posts in acategory, a bot might have to go back 10 pages before being able to find the link

to one of your awesome earlier posts. Source

There’s an easy fix, in fact, there are several plugins that deal with this. Joost’s favorite

one by far is WP-PageNavi, maintained by Scribu, one of the best WordPress developers

around. WP-PageNavi plugin will replace the old ← Older posts | Newer posts → links

with numbered pagination.

WP-PageNavi requires WordPress version 3.2 or higher and is compatible up to

WordPress 4.4

https://yoast.com/wordpress-seo/#pagination



14. WordPress Importer

If you need to import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, tags and more

from one WordPress install to another, you can use WordPress Importer free plugin.

This free plugin can also import and export custom post types, Comments, Custom

fields and post meta, Categories, tags and terms from custom taxonomies and Authors.

This free plugin is created by WordPress.org


All time downloads (as of January 2016) :

15. NextGEN Gallery

This is the most popular WordPress gallery plugin and one of the most popular plugins

of all time with over 14 million downloads and 1+ million installs.

NextGEN Gallery is very powerful plugin for uploading and managing galleries of

images, with the ability to batch upload, import meta data, add/delete/rearrange/sort

images, edit thumbnails, group galleries into albums, and more. NextGEN Gallery

provides two front-end display styles (slideshows and thumbnail galleries), both of

which come with a wide array of options for controlling size, style, timing, transitions,

controls, lightbox effects, and more.



16. TinyMCE Advanced

WordPress editor does not give advance buttons and options, for example if you want

to create tables you will have to use HTML mark up. TinyMCE Advanced plugin enables

advanced features of TinyMCE, the WordPress WYSIWYG editor. It is compatible up to

WordPress 4.4. This free plugin is created by Andrew Ozz, who is one the WordPress

WordPress 4.4. This free plugin is created by Andrew Ozz, who is one the WordPress

lead developer. Exploit Scanner is his another very useful plugin.

Some Of The Features Added By TinyMCE Advanced

Support for creating and editing tables.

More options when inserting lists.

Search and Replace in the editor.

Ability to set Font Family and Font Size.

And many others.



17. Google Analytics By Yoast

Google Analytics by Yoast is another most popular WordPress plugin from Joost de Valk

developer of Yoast SEO plugin. The Google Analytics by Yoast plugin for WordPress

allows you to track your blog easily and always stays up to date with the newest

features in Google Analytics.

It requires WordPress 3.9 or higher and WordPress 4.3.1. I want to share my experience

with you that when i installed this plugin in December 2015, it failed to connect with my

Google account. When I pasted the authentication code, it took me to a non-existent

page. I tried to contact developer but they said they failed to solve the issue. MAke sure

it works well and you can authenticate your Google analytics account. otherwise you

can use Jetpack’s Stats module or any other plugin.




18. W3 Total Cache

This is another WordPress caching plugin for Easy Web Performance Optimization

(WPO) using caching: browser, page, object, database, minify and content delivery

network support. W3 Total Cache helps you to optimize and increase page speed of

your site.

According to WordPress.org page web hosts like Page.ly, Synthesis, DreamHost,

MediaTemple, Go Daddy, Host Gator and countless more recommend and companies

like AT&T, stevesouders.com, mattcutts.com, mashable.com, smashingmagazine.com,

makeuseof.com, yoast.com, ilovetypography.com, webdesignerdepot.com, css-

tricks.com and tens of thousands of others trust W3 Total Cache plugin.

W3 Total Cache requires WordPress 3.2 or higher and Compatible up to WordPress 4.3.1.

It was last updated 4 months ago (August 2015).



19. Duplicate Post

19. Duplicate Post

Duplicate Post plugin allows to clone a post or page, or edit it as a new draft quickly. If

you find this useful, consider donating whatever sum you choose, even just 10 cents. It’s

been downloaded thousands of times: just a few cents from every user would help

Lopo the developer of this plugin to develop the plugin and improve support.

Active installs : 900,000+


20. Disable Comments

This plugin allows WordPress site administrators to globally disable comments on any

post type (posts, pages, attachments, etc.) so that these settings cannot be overridden

for individual posts. Disable Comments plugin also removes all comment-related fields

from edit and quick-edit screens. On multi-site installations, Disable Comments plugin

can be used to disable comments on the entire network.

Additionally, comment-related items can be removed from the Dashboard, Widgets,

the Admin Menu and the Admin Bar. This plugin requires WordPress 3.9 or higher and

compatible up to WordPress 4.4.

http://lopo.it/duplicate-post-plugin/



21. WP Multibyte Patch

Multibyte functionality enhancement for the WordPress Japanese package.



22. Black Studio TinyMCE Widget

Black Studio TinyMCE Widget is created by Marco Chiesi and Francesco Canovi, that

adds a new Visual Editor widget type that allows you to insert rich text and media

objects in your sidebars with no hassle. As you know that default WordPress text widget

lacks of functionalities and it requires HTML knowledge, not every WordPress users

knows HTML, this plugin was born to overcome these limitations.

Black Studio TinyMCE Widget requires WordPress 3.1 or higher and compatible up to

WordPress 4.3.2 but it does not mean it won’t work with latest version of WordPress.

Download history page shows 15,261 downloads last week (first week of January 2015).

To support the developer you can also donate to this plugin.

Black Studio TinyMCE Widget Features

Add rich text widgets to your sidebars and edit them using visual editor

Switch between Visual mode and HTML mode (including Quick tags toolbar)

Insert images/videos from WordPress Media Library

http://www.blackstudio.it/en/wordpress-plugins/black-studio-tinymce-widget/

Insert links to existing WordPress pages/posts or external resources

Support for fullscreen editing mode

Support for widgets accessibility mode

Support for WordPress networks (multi-site)

Support for WPML (multi-language)

Live preview in theme customizer

Available in 20+ languages



23. Page Builder By SiteOrigin

Page Builder by SiteOrigin is the most popular page creation plugin and one of the most

popular WordPress plugin with 700,000+ active installs. This powerful free plugin makes

it easy to create responsive column based content, using the widgets you know and

love. Your content will accurately adapt to all mobile devices, ensuring your site is

mobile ready. It means your content will look great on all type of devices desktops,

tablets an smart phones.

One of the great thing about this plugin is that you are free to change themes as often

as you like. Your content will always come along with you. Page Builder offers simple

drag and drop interface means you will never need to write a single line of code. Page

Builder generates all the code for you.

Plugin developers (Greg Priday and Braam Genis) claims that they have created an

intuitive interface that looks just like WordPress itself. It is easy to learn, so you will be

building beautiful, responsive content in no time.

Page Builder by SiteOrigin requires WordPress 4.0 or higher and is compatible up to

WordPress 4.4.1. This plug in is up to date and was last updated in December 2015.



24. IThemes Security (Formerly Better WP Security)

iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security) is one of the best and most popular

WordPress security plugin that offers more than 30 ways to protect your website from

attacks. With this free and powerful security plugin you can protect WordPress site by

hiding vital areas of your site. You can easily protect access to important files and

preventing brute-force login attempts is also possible with this plugin. Brute force

preventing brute-force login attempts is also possible with this plugin. Brute force

attack is very common to steal login details of WordPress sites.

A pro version is also available which offers many advance features. Version 5.1.1 requires

WordPress 4.1 or higher and compatible up to WordPress 4.3.2. iThemes has created 10

free plugins this security plugin is most popular. For example iThemes Hide Dashboard

plugin lets you hide the login pages of your WordPress site making them only accessible

through the address you provide.



25. Google Analytics Dashboard For WP

Google Analytics Dashboard for WP is created by Alin Marcu, this one is his most

popular plugin. This plugin shows Google Analytics reports, in real-time, in your

dashboard screen. You can see real-time number of visitors, real-time acquisition

channels and real-time traffic sources details on your site with in WordPress dashboard.

This free plugin enables you to track your site stats using the latest Google Analytics

tracking code and allows you to view key Google Analytics reports in your WordPress

install. It means no need to visit Google analytics dashboard to view your site stats. FOr

more information and all features you can read plugin description.

Google Analytics Dashboard for WP version 4.9.1.2 requires WordPress 3.5 or higher and

is compatible up to WordPress 4.4.1.



26. UpdraftPlus Backup And Restoration

Regular back up are one of the most important thing for any WordPress website, you

don’t know when some thing bad happens to your website. Hackers are always try to

access your website, in case of any problem they can delete your entire website and

your client can delete some important files.

There are many free and premium WordPress back up plugins are available. UpdraftPlus

Backup and Restoration is most popular free plugin that makes Backup and restoration

simple and easy. This free plugin offers complete backups and manual or scheduled

(backup to S3, Dropbox, Google Drive, Rackspace, FTP, SFTP, email + others).



27. Clef Two-Factor Authentication

Two Step verification helps you make your online accounts more secure and safe. 2-

Step Verification can help keep bad guys out, even if they have your password. Many

online services offer two step verification services to make your accounts more secure

and safe. there are many free WordPress plugins available to add two Factor

Authentication to your WordPress site.

Clef Two-Factor Authentication is most popular free WordPress plugin for two factor

authentication. This plug lets you use modern two-factor that people love to use. strong

authentication without passwords or tokens; single sign on/off.

Clef Two-Factor Authentication 2.3.3 requires WordPress 3.5 or higher and is compatible

up to WordPress 4.4.1.

I personally use Google Authenticator plugin for two step verification, You can read my

sitepoint tutorial How to add 2-Step Verification for WordPress Using Google

Authenticator.


All time downloads (as of January 2016) : 693,434

28. Meta Slider

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There are many free and premium WordPress slider plugins available, with 600,000+

active install Meta Slider is most popular WordPress plugins to create slides. This free

most popular WordPress slider plugin makes it easy to create slideshows fast and easy.

Simply select images from your WordPress Media Library, drag and drop them into

place, set slide captions, links and SEO fields all from one page.

You can choose from 4 different slideshow types (Flex Slider, Nivo Slider, Responsive

Slides & Coin Slider) and use the provided shortcode or template include to easily

embed slideshows in your blog. A premium version is also available.



29. Duplicator

The Duplicator is most popular WordPress migration plugin, that gives WordPress

administrators the ability to migrate, copy or clone a site from one location to another.

The plugin also serves as a simple backup utility. The Duplicator supports both serialized

and base64 serialized string replacement. If you need to move WordPress or backup

WordPress this plugin can help simplify the process.

Duplicator 1.1.0 requires WordPress 3.9 or higher and compatible up to WordPress 4.4.1.



30. WP-DB-Backup

With 500,000+ active install WP-DB-Backup is one of the most popular WordPress

plugin to back database. This plugin allows you to easily backup your core WordPress

database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.

WP-DB-Backup version 2.3.o requires WordPress 2.0.3 or higher. WP-DB-Backup is

created by Austin Matzko, he has also published 15 other free plugins.



Final Words

These are most popular free WordPress plugins of 2015 and at the start of year all these

plugins are Most popular wordpress plugins 2016. There are many other free and

popular plugins available. Keep in mind if a plugin is very popular it does not mean it is

great and offer everything, sometimes less popular plugins works great offers much

more great features, simple and easy to use interface.

For example Clef Two-Factor Authentication is most popular plugin for WordPress Two-

For example Clef Two-Factor Authentication is most popular plugin for WordPress Two-

Factor Authentication but less popular Google Authenticator also works great and i

have been using it for a year.

Google Analytics by Yoast is most popular plugin but if you will read help forums many

people says that it does not work and they can not authenticate their account. So

always test plugins before installing them on a live website.

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